Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-26
N THE EASTERN STATES
Two Beys Unjustly In Prls-
en- Three Years.
Atlantic FisAsrmea Pleased = Terrific
Guzpewdsr Kxplosisa = Eastern
Fisods-MieAlvAn Legislation.
TIE Coming Comet

Ftooas-AiehlxAn LekizlAkion.
Ths Coming Comet.
II 4 Fixhs - the Deash.
MAxwrIoun Mich. }, Jan. 2R--Jcseph
Armstrong; ana Frank Holmes, of Pent-
water, have been hunting and trapping
: IN Delta county for several weeks. On
Saturday, while setting their tFnps,
! Holmes cut his leg badly, and bis CON-
: panion went for help. Within an honf
! be returned, TO ind only bloody boaes,
sone scraps Of clothine, bloody axe
, and q revolver. Around about were The
. carcasos Of i've wolves which Holmes
had killed IN his light for his like.
Rsys wranxfally Punished.
MuwAuKKR. Jan. 26-Thrse years aQo
next May. Mahlsn Mccullough and
| William Poetz. tWo boys oonnecaed with
some Of the leading families Of Bayvisw,
were aant 70 tha State Prison for three
years, upon conviction Of having shot
and robbed August Gfothe. street ear
drives Today Father Decker. pastor Of
SC. Anthony's Church, announced that
the beys are innocent; thas the guilty
man has made himself known 30 him,
through tie confessional. He refuses,
however, 20 divulee the name Of The
latter, bat has asked Governor Risk b
pardon Puetx and McOnllough. The
assault on GrOthe was unade one dark
night In the suburbs of this city IN true
hiehwayman style. Grolhe refused TO
surrender bis change box, and was shot,
/ IL vas supposed fatally. AZ the sight Of
the bleeding bodE, Mrs. GFothe became
q raEing maniac, and 10 nov c0ndned in |
the asylam. Az the trial Detectives tea |
titled that the boys confessed their part |
Ia the attack and robbery. Paetx and |
McOnllonQh aWore that the confession |
was ferced from them that for ten |
days they were beaten, starved, hung np /
BY the thumbs and otherwise III treated,
and that they confessed 10 escape starva.
fi0n. Twenty witnesses testified 70 an /
alibi, but the boys we're convicted. No i
OullouRh Is said TO be dying from con-
sumption.
A Double Crime.
CHICAGO, Jan. 25.-The perpetratlon
Of the great Rock Island tFain robbery
was directly charged against Henry
ScUaFtx, Q former brakeman Of the i
road, today. He will have TO answer in
dictments for both the robbery and The
murder Of Messsng Nichols. Sowarix
vas arrested here some time ago and
jailed on charge of biRamy. The fact
Of bis having been Rock Island brake
man directed suspicion against him as
Q perpetrator Of the robbery and muF-
der. ScVaFtz, however, deded any one
70 prove bis connection with the affair.
SoWartz's bail was liked Il 5000, and
the prisoner had hardly breathed the
SIR before be was re arrested by two Of
hcefs holding capiases showing Sewartz
TO be indicted By the Grand Jury Of
Grundy county for murder and robbery.
Scwartz was hustled 10 the depot, and i
taken BY q special Rock Island train 10
Morris, Illinois, where be will he ex-
amined tomorrow. Remarkable efforts
we're made By SO 4artz's attorneys 20 Get i
him safely from Jail after the signing OF /
the bail bond, but sheriff Matson per-
sonally delayed bis departure until the
oapiases could be served.
Happy Rishermen.
GLouoEsrHR Mass }, Jan. 25.-There
was great iubilati0n hers over the pas
sage Of the retaliatory fisheries bill hy /
the senate. A large crowd assembled |
In the vicinity Of the Custom House and /
postofiioe, blocking the streets and
awakening the echoes With frequent
cheers and other manifestations OF en-
thusiasm. The opinion is that the bill
ts what fishermen and vessel owners
here desire. They don't want to be on
unfriendly terms with the Canadians,
bat do want the accordance Of some
rights and privileges.
CoeI Request.
JKRsxY Orr, N. j., Jan. ga oom
mittee of Lorillard strikers last night /
demanded the discharge Of those Of /
their number who had returned 10 Il
work ct the old price before the strike
vas declared of. This vas refused.
Strikers continued 10 return 70 work in
small parties today.
KRect eT q Gunpowder Explosion.
FoRT SoorT. (Ks.) Jan. 29.--About
200 cases OF gunpowder exploded while
Ia transit over Che Misaonri PeciAc
railway, half g mile west Of this city, al i
o'clock this morning. The train con
sisted Of twenty three freight cars,
fifieen. Of which were completely de. /
m0lished, khe magazine car being /
blown TO atoms. The engine was badly /
broken up, but not blown OF the track. /
SCOTT Hooker, brakeman, was instant L
u killed. A great hole vas blown in
the roadbed, and rails and ties and
ground we're torn up for several rods
distant. Ten thousand dollars worth /
OF plate glass and window glass In the
central and western part Of the city /
were destroyed. May thought IL al /
earthquake, and left their beds, and ran /
from their houses. A report comes Co
day that several window glasses were
broken at Nevada, No, Is miles distant, i
aud also ~ Rich Hill. Houses were
shaken ell over this county.
The wheat market.
CzIcAoo, Jan. 25.-If California was
In the wheat maFket today as q buyeF.
if vas 90 overwhelmed By the tfemon-
deus rush Of seller. that 10 vas CON- /
pletely buried out Of sight. There was
no war news, and Qutotations that
came In this morning showed that for
eian stock markets we're not only high
eF, bat we're altogether free from neF-
vouaneas on the SCORE Of var. Holders
we're wilder TO sell than they we're 20
bay yesterday, and May wheat was
sold at the very opening today - e49<,
against S5X last night. New York led
In selling, and English houses joined.
Zee GerneA. Fioeds ana Destracfisn.
Ponr Jaws "a. ", Jan. 25.-Ios IN
the creek broke last night and goFRsd
at Hawley, Pa. Ths lower part Of toe
village was Aooded, and the Erie Foand
house had water In Il four feet deep,
putting out fires IN all the engines. The
gorge gave way af noon today, and the
water rapidly feoeded.
Ice In the Delauare goKged At Reese
town, 50 miles syuth Of fhia placs, this
morning, and flooded the farming
eoantry 10 an extent never before seen
q that point. The highway was GOV.
cred By water 10 the dspsh Of -four feet.
More distraction Il seen at Cookee3on,
g miles west Of here. on the Erie rail
uay. The Zoe broke up 81 noon yestef-
day ak Hancock. and last niahf II
RoFRed in the big eddy, which is about
seven miles below Cocbecton, sud rap
idly hsoded back until Coahseton 0as
reached since that time the entire
l0uer part Of the village, contalninR =
smaH houses. has been andar wasef.